A P O P H E N I A

- "the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things"

- "the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data"

- "the perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena"

- "The spontaneous perception of connectedness and meaningfulness in random phenomena: seeing patterns and connections where none exist"

- "Pattern recognition itself can morph into the disorder apophenia, 'the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.' Which means that even when Pollard discovers The Footage's maker, it's an ambiguous - and potentially apophenic - resolution. Are the subtlest patterns we see really there? To Gibson, the most satisfying moments of our reality are possibly just reflections of our needs and dreams."